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Re: [perl #122196] why are control-flow keywords confused with subroutines?

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From:
David Nicol
Date:
July 1, 2014 04:52
Subject:
Re: [perl #122196] why are control-flow keywords confused with subroutines?
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CAFwScO_4Y75gL4u697O60OVaN5=dy9rM2Z08qe0-tTCLf7y0Tg@mail.gmail.com
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 9:51 PM, Linda Walsh <perlbug-followup@perl.org>
wrote:

>
> use constant { next=>1, continue=>2 };
>

the usual practice I've seen is to avoid the collisions by using all-caps
constants, or prefix my_ or something. &next and &continue like the warning
suggests works too.
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